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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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