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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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