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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Chad to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to better perceive these interesting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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