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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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