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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology have made it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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