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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also explores the most important 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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