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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education enable people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to understand these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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