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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning are enabling students all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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