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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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