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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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