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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in distance learning are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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