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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning make it possible for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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