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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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