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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering more than ever because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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