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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Senegal to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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