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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in e-learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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