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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Professors want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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