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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Swaziland to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants want to understand these important new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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