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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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