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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations must deal 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 educators ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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