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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These online MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better grasp these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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