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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are struggling with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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