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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these open educational undertakings. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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