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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning enable people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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