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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in elearning are empowering humans all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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