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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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