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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in electronic education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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