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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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