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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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