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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online learning are empowering students all around the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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