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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Central African Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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