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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have empowered students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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