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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in elearning enable people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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