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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massive open online courses? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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