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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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