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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are making it possible for students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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