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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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