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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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