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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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