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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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