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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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