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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Slovakia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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