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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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