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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are empowering humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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