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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tokelau to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This thrilling new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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