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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like United Kingdom to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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