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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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