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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Japan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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