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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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