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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that blended learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these intriguing new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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