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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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