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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online learning are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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