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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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