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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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