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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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