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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in blended learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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