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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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