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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. 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 satisfy this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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