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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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