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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in online education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like China, People's Republic of to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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