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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education are enabling learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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