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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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