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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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