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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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