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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology enable learners all around the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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