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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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