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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education are making it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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