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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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