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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in e-learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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