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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in elearning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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