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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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