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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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