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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in elearning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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