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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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