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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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