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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take online classes. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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