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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology enable students in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Togo to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand these new open educational endeavours. Educators want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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