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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these significant new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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