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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Universities want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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