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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. People want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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