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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology have enabled people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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