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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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