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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions must deal with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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