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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners 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 issues that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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