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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in e-learning are enabling learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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