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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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