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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New changes in distance learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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