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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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