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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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