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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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