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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Intellectuals want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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