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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in online education are empowering students in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This exciting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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