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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education technology are enabling learners all over the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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