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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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