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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning technology have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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