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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Jarvis Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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