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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this developing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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