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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in blended learning have enabled people all over the world to participate in online classes. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The John Marshall Law School to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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