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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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