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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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