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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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