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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in learning technology enable people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cameroon to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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