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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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. MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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