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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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