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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to participate in online classes. These MOOC classes are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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