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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Professors want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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