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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with today because blended learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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