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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which researches subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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