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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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