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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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