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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desire for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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