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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education technology are providing the means for students all over the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these significant new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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