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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are enabling learners all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Afghanistan to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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