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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education are enabling people all around the world to take courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are considering now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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