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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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