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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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