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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning have enabled students all over the world to take part in classes online. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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