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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning have empowered people all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the key 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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