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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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