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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in technology-enhanced learning have made it possible for humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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