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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in elearning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Lithuania to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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