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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. People want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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