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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Rwanda to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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