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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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