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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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