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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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