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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in digital education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Wallis and Futuna to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Educators want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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