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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Marquette University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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