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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which studies subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Uganda to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This inspiring new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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