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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in learning technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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