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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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