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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the most important 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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