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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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