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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which analyzes topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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