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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in online education make it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are free 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 a lot of topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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