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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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