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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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