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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Belarus to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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