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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in blended learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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