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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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