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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled students all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sudan to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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