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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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