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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwanda to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desire for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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