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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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