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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in elearning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that blended learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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