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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also researches 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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