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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? 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 in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open education endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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