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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education have empowered people all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ashmore and Cartier Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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