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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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