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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning technology are enabling students all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these new open education ventures. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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