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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Scholars want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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