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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like North Seattle Community College to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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