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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like South Africa to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these new open educational ventures. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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