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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Central African Republic to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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