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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tunisia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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