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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Nigeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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