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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 (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational ventures. Academics want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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