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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning make it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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