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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are considering in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Aland to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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