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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in elearning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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