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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Educators want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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