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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering learners all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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