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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology make it possible for people all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that blended learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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