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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ross Dependency to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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