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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education enable people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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