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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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