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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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