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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in electronic educational technology have empowered students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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