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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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