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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in digital education technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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