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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also deals with the major 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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