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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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