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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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