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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that blended learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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