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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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