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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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