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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ghana to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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