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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with 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 institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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