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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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