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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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