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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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