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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in blended learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can organizations get a handle on low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open education ventures. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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