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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cape Verde to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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