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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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