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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online education technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Swaziland to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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