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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also studies the key 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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