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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kenya to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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