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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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