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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Uganda to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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