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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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