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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Malaysia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these open education endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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