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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online learning technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because blended learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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