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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education initiatives. People want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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