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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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