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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in distance learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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