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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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