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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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