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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are considering now that blended learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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