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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning make it possible for students all around the world to be participants 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 courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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