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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Haiti to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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