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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like McHenry County College to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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