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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational ventures. Instructors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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