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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions have to consider today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also reviews the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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