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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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