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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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