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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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