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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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