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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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