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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have empowered humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions must deal with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational undertakings. Trainers want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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