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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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