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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that blended learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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