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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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