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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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