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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in online education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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