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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes online. These massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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