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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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