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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Scholars want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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