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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology enable people all over the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Irvine to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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