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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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