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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online education enable people in nations all around the world to take classes online. 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. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Somalia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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