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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Wake Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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