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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Namibia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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