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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with now that blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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