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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Gambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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