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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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