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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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