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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education initiatives. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this demand for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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