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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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