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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning have made it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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