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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations must deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better perceive these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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