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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this increasing need for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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