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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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