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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education are empowering people in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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