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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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