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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Djibouti to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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