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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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