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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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