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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all over the world to be participants in online courses. 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. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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