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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning enable humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these exciting new open education endeavours. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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