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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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