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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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