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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sudan to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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