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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in e-learning are empowering learners all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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