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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning are empowering humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this increasing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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