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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also explores the major 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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