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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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