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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in blended learning technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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