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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open educational endeavours. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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