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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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