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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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