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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this expanding demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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