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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest developments in learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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