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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in blended learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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