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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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