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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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