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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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