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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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