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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also describes 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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