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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning technology have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Maldives to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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