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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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