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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online learning have empowered students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these significant new open educational endeavours. People want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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