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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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