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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology are empowering humans in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Malta to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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