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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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