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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in distance learning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Micronesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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