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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology enable students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that blended learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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