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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are considering more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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