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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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