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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology are providing the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rutgers University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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