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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in e-learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive 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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