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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Spain to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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