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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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