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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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