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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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