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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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