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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning make it possible for humans all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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