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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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