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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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