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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in elearning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Uruguay to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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