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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Romania to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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