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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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