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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kingman Reef to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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