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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education undertakings. Scholars want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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