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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic educational technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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