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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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