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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning are empowering learners all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning organizations must deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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