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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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