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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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