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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online learning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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