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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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