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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massive open online courses? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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