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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these MOOC classes? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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