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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are considering now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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