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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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