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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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