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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in online education are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Eritrea to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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