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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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