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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education have provided the means for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many subjects that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these important new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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