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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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