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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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