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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education make it possible for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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