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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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