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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in learning technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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