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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Kenya to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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