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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Zimbabwe to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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