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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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