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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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