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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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