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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the 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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