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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in distance learning have enabled students in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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