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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in elearning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that blended learning organizations are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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