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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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