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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning technology have empowered learners all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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