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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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