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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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