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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Cayman Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better understand these new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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