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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in blended learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to be more aware of these promising new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also considers the most important 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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