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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology have made it possible for students all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with 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 organizations make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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