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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning technology make it possible for learners all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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