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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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