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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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