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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants would like to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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