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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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