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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Burundi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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