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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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