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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Uganda to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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