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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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