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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing 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 organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Saint Pierre and Miquelon to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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