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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning technology are empowering students all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational ventures. Students want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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