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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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