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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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