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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these important new open education undertakings. Trainers want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this growing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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