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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in online education technology enable learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Scientists want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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