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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in elearning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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