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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning enable humans all over the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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