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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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