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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Botswana to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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