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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning enable students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational undertakings. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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