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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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