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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in online learning enable people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Students want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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