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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology enable learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also researches 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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