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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that investigates topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in e-learning enable people all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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