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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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