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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also explores the most important 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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