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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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