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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in digital education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like French Polynesia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also articulates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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