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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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