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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in e-learning technology are empowering learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better 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 gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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