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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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