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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because 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 certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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