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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which deals with subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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