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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Comoros to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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