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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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