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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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