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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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