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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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