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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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