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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in electronic educational technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This gripping new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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