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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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