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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology have empowered learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Korea, North to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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