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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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