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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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