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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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