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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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