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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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