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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online learning are empowering people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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