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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Ghana to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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