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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are making it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education ventures. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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