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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of issues that blended learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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