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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in electronic education technology make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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