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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Somalia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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