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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in blended learning technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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