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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in online education have enabled learners all around the world to take part in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Mali to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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