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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these MOOC courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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