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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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