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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have empowered people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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