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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Martinique to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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