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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Educators want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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