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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in blended learning technology enable people all over the world to be participants 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 online MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zimbabwe to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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