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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions have to consider now that online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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