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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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