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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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