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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education have enabled humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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