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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning are empowering students all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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