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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education initiatives. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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