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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Trainers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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