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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing demand for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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