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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Uzbekistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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