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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also analyzes the key 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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