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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online education have empowered students all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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