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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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