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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning are providing the means for humans in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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