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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology are enabling learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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