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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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