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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kiribati to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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