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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in elearning have made it possible for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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