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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in learning technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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