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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Benin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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