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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest developments in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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