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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning have empowered people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education 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 improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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