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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology enable people all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Poland to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Academics want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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