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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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