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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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