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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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