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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also studies the 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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