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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 (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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