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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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