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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in e-learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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