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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning have empowered humans all over the world to take part in courses online. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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