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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education endeavours. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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