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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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