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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in digital education technology enable people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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