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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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