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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Senegal to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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