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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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