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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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