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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Slovenia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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