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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are generally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Gambia to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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