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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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