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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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