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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better grasp these open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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