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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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