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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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