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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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