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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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