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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Broward College to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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