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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better grasp these promising new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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