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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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