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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because blended learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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