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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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