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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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