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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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