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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in digital education technology are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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