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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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