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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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