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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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