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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these significant new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important 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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