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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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