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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in electronic education technology are empowering students all over the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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