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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sao Tome and Principe to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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