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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with 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 certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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