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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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