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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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