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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Portugal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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