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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in online learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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