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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning technology have empowered students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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