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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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