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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest evolvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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