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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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