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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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