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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Estonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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