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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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