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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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