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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions are considering today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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