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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in digital education technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open educational initiatives. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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