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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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