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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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