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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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