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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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