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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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