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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in distance learning technology are enabling students in nations all aver the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open educational ventures. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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