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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online education are enabling humans all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance 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 be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cornell University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp these new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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