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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Princeton University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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