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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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