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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have enabled learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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