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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This book also addresses 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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