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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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