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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to better understand these new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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