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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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