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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Intellectuals want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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