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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UC Irvine to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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