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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are struggling with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better comprehend these open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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