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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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