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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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