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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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