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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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