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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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