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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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