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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain a better understanding 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. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the 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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