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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these new open education experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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