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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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