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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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