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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education endeavours. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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