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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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