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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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