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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Uzbekistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better grasp these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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