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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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