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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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