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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education technology enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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