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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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