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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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