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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic educational technology enable students all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Corporations want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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