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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better understand these compelling new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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