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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to understand these compelling new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This amazing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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