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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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