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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in e-learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also considers the major 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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