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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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