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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in online learning technology are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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