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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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