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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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