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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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