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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take online classes. These MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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