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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in learning technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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