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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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