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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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