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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that researches issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology make it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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