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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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