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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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