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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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