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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology enable people in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Princeton University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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