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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Suriname to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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