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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Mozambique to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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